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Donald Sassoon, professor and writer, discusses his book “One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century.” Sassoon explores the history of socialism in Europe since 1889 and socialism's relationship with capitalism. He explains how the 1930 depression and World War II affected the growth of socialism in Europe and America. He also explains the creation and government of the Soviet Union
Attorney Debra Evenson and Gisela Lopez discuss the U.S. embargo on Cuba, the 1994 Cuban craft crisis, and food shortages and life in Cuba.
History, genocide, human rights and Amnesty International are all topics of this interview with David Hawk. Solutions to the problems in Cambodia are presented by Hawk, too. There is also an excerpt from Studs Terkel's conversation with William Shawcross.
In 1967, Clair Culhane worked as a hospital administrator at a tuberculosis hospital near Saigon, Vietnam. She discusses what she observed at the hospital and her anti-war work when she returned home.